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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1964
Page
6
Los Angeles Police Chief William H Parker reports 46 demonstrations in Los Angeles this year with an average of 26 participants. He says 69 percent of demonstrators were white and 31 percent Black, noting the city’s Black population is 413,546 and that statistics contradict fears of racial violence.
Clapham Junction on the Southern Region of British Railways handles more than 2,500 trains every 24 hours, making it the world’s busiest railway junction in operation.
Across the nation topless bathing suits drew attention with mixed reactions. In Los Angeles a live model drew crowds and police presence but no arrest as officials deemed the display ladylike. Other scenes included a helicopter arrival in Oklahoma City provoking crowds, a Hartford woman’s topless swim leading to indecent exposure charges, and Joy Sheridan serving drinks at a San Jose restaurant while wearing a topless bikini prompting public decency complaints.
Middletown firemen were called to Sorg Paper Co Mill No 1 on Columbia Avenue yesterday morning when an electric fuse box shorted out. Firemen said $100 damage was sustained. The blaze was extinguished by the firm's employer before firemen arrived. An auto owned by Mary Ross at 242% South Ave caught fire late yesterday afternoon in front of 439 Yankee Road. Firemen said the fire was started by a carburetor backfire. Damage was $10.
Alabama Governor George Wallace told about 9,000 at the Mississippi Coliseum that he is certainly a candidate for president. He presented a plan for unpledged electors, arguing the South should bargain with both parties to influence national policy and defend states rights against federal civil rights actions. His 42 minute speech drew frequent applause as he attacked centralized government and the civil rights debate.
In Chicago AP report, Federal Judge William J. Campbell escorted 21 SNCC demonstrators from the U.S. Courthouse after they refused to disperse outside Edward Hanrahan’s fourth floor office. Marshals ejected 12 on Wednesday, one arrested, as civil rights volunteers sought federal protection in Mississippi.
About 400 young civil rights volunteers from northern and western colleges wrap a week of training in Oxford Ohio and plan to head into Mississippi this weekend. They vow nonviolent action while facing the danger seen in the disappearances of three colleagues. Bayard Rustin Austin urge rededication and perseverance as they fund their own travel and spend summer aiding voter registration drives and freedom schools.
Fifty traffic violators paid a total of $1,025 in fines yesterday in Middletown Municipal Court. Sixteen paid $240 in speeding fines. The list includes Alfred Allen and others with $15 suspended for failure to yield, Elza Shoemaker with $50 for failure to yield, and numerous fines for assured clear distance, anti noise, defective exhaust, muffler violations, no operator's license, expired licenses, and other infractions. Bonds forfeited by Edward R. Roberts, Frank J. Buckway, and Roger Lee Dennis. Five speeding bonds forfeited.
In Martins Ferry Ohio officials search for Jimmy Cruise believed drowned in the Ohio River near the Ferry Yacht Club after a companion saw him disappear in the water on Wednesday. A separate note mentions about a million tons of cosmic dust from space falling to Earth annually, with particles needing a microscope to identify them.
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